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Archive for May, 2009

I will try and keep this up to date, with all information from the UK.

Please check back from time to time, as this will be updated regularly…If you see something that i have missed, please contact me (thanks)…..

There has been an explosion of UK UFO activity this year, mainly due to the Sun (tabloid UK newspaper) who think they are the UFO EXPERTS, seeming to print anything remotely to do with UFOs (with no facts/sensationalism and mostly no TRUTH). Unfortunately, this now seems to be spreading to other National newspapers.

Are they eventually going to make UFOLOGY a complete joke?

So, many of the sightings reported are sensationalized, with usually alot of information missing.

Please keep this in mind as you view these postings from the local and national press.

I’m afraid many also fail to follow up on their initial leads, and many reports just remain forgotten.

” Southbourne man Chris sent us this video, which he thinks could be of a UFO.
Mysterious lights are often seen over the town, but they usually turn out to be Chinese Lanterns or the SBS on late night training ” (full article).

You tube video of this ( i would suggest this to be a chinese lantern?)

” “They were totally silent and much too big to be a plane.
“I have heard of a case recently in the Wrexham area where Chinese lanterns have been mistaken for UFOs, but I think that in this instance the objects were moving far too quickly.”
The man said that one of the lights appeared to be moving in a particularly fast fashion.
They were visible for about three to four minutes before fading away ” (extract from article). I believe it is again Chinese lanterns.

“ The event will be staged at the seaside resort’s Spa conferencing centre on Thursday, October 29 and Friday, October 30, and has been organised by North Yorkshire-based UFO investigator Russ Kellett ” (extract from article).

” A bizarre light was seen crossing the sky near Brompton, Northallerton, sparking a local UFO alert.
The unidentified flying object was spotted on Saturday between 8.30pm and 9pm as dusk was beginning to fall.
A couple, who prefer to stay anonymous, saw a bright triangular shape on the horizon over Water End. It appeared to traverse the sky under power and was visible for about a minute ” (extract from article).

“ The cluster of glowing orange lights seen passing over the village on Thursday April 23 were not extra terrestrial visitors as many alleged but 38 Chinese lanterns released in memory of Lucille Frawley who died of a brain tumour in October last year ” (extract from article).

” Mr Smith added: “I counted 12 lights in all, it was really peculiar. They were all moving right across the sky more slowly than a helicopter or anything like that.
“They seemed to be coming over the Ridgeway and floating over towards Weymouth, they weren’t in any particular formation.
A Portland Coastguard spokesman said they received no reports of any strange sightings, but said Chinese lanterns or meteors could be the explanation.
He said: “We have had numerous calls of sightings of lanterns in the past ” (extract from article).

” “Each ‘star’ had a reddish light and, as I looked, I could see they were all moving very slowly and silently towards the north. There was no vapour trail either.
“The lights spanned the width of the sky and were brighter than Venus. It was a lovely clear night and I’ll be very surprised if no-one else saw something.
“We live on top of a hill overlooking Ammanford and occasionally see shooting stars, but never something like this ” (extract from article).

” He said the underside of the UFOs were like the underbelly of a jellyfish in appearance. Two neighbours from across the road watched the spectacle with the family. Michael managed to catch the bright lights on his phone camera, but the pictures do not show the craft in detail ” (extract from article).

” That’s the plea from 18-year-old Haley Whitehouse, who says she clearly saw five huge orange balls, travelling faster than a plane, shooting above her Mellish Court home just after 9pm ” (extract fromvery short article).

” It does look interesting, but I can’t believe it wasn’t seen by more people or reported to the news/media. My gut-feelings are it’s just a trick of the light or just a fake! ” (extract from article). I would have to agree.

” Around 40 lanterns were released at the annual pagan Beltane gathering at Rodden, near Langton Herring, as part of a celebration heralding the start of summer.
Organised by Weymouth-based pagans from the Dolmen Grove, the Spirit of Rebirth gathering attracted more than 200 people, many of whom put wishes in the lanterns and let them fly into the night ” (extract from article).

“ Mr Reagan, who was President from 1981 to 1989, told a pal he had seen flying saucers three times, said author Darwin Porter.
He allegedly added: “I just know it. They’ve selected some desert in the West to make their landing.”
But the ex-President’s daughter Patti Davis dismissed the claims, saying her father, who died in 2004, may have been joking ” (extract from article).

” A formation of seven ‘craft’ were spotted flying over Burntwood at 9.40pm. A group of six adults and a small child watched in amazement as the bright lights passed overhead in the direction of Lichfield ” (extract from article).

“ John Michell, who died on April 24 aged 76, was a charismatic Old Etonian mystic often championed as a counter-culture seer for his fascination with alien life, geomancy, the countryside and crop circles; his most famous book, The View Over Atlantis (1969), is arguably the most influential tome in the hippie underground movement, and is credited with placing the Somerset town of Glastonbury as the capital of the New Age ” (extract from article).

“ On Sept. 3, 1965, Norman Muscarello rushed into the Exeter police station blown away by the hovering craft with five red flashing lights he had just witnessed. Following his report, a series of similar stories throughout the area began emerging.
This year on Sept. 5, a series of events will kick off at the very spot Muscarello shared his story, the Exeter Town Hall, as part of the first Exeter UFO Festival which will celebrate incidents in Exeter and the surrounding area ” (extract from article).

“ Local resident Wayne Brickles informed the Lincolnshire Free Press by posting a message on its new Facebook page, describing nine unidentified lights he saw speed across Patriot Close at about 9.50pm ” (extract from article).

” Bob Cousins, from Kesgrave, contacted the paper to report his sighting of what he believes were two meteors at 10.40pm Saturday night – and he wants to know if anyone else saw the mystery objects.
He said: “I saw a bright orange/yellow light, brighter than a plane light approaching from the west, heading due east. It looked odd so I got my camcorder but the battery was flat ” (extract from article).

” A BRIGHT orange light in the sky above Brixham caught the eye of resident Anthony Sherwood who is confident that what he witnessed was a UFO.
He watched the illuminated ‘disc’ from his living room window in Summer Lane around 9.30pm on Saturday.
After seeing it fly in a straight line about half-a-mile above the rooftops, Anthony stood in awe as the object headed up into the skies at a 60-degree angle before vanishing into the clouds ” (extract from article).

” A Chasetown family released ten Chinese lanterns (mini hot air balloons made from rice paper with tea lights) into the sky.
But as they rose and floated off towards Lichfield, local residents watched the strange formation of lights in awe.
Last week The Post reported how one local man believed he was seeing UFOs because of the strange shape created underneath the ‘craft’ and because there was no sound ” (extract from article).

” A UFO sighting was reported to police on Thursday night.
A member of the public contacted police after they had seen orange flashing lights in the sky above New Mills.
The lights reportedly flew over his house twice at 10.25pm.
A police spokeswoman said: “He believed the lights to be too fast to be an aircraft and too quiet to be a helicopter” ” (full article post).

” It has since been claimed the lights were Chinese Lanterns set off from a wedding party.
However, Jackie says she is not convinced by that explanation.
She said: “There’s no way they were lanterns. They all went off in exactly the same direction, following each other ” (extract from article). I do hope this is a misquote…? evidently, never heard of the wind then??

” These images of the mysterious object were taken as it apparently hovered over a residential area of Bristol.
Computer game writer Andy Hadlington, 36, spotted the blob from the window of his office in Knowle late on Sunday afternoon ” (extract from article).

“ The actual government position and involvement, as shown by Andrews are extremely important for both the crop circles and UFO subjects and demonstrate why we need to be vigilant with the accuracy and truthfulness of statements made by governments, EVEN during this ’so called’ period of CHANGE and transparency ” (extract from article).

” The video appears to show at least six lights tracking at an altitude far lower in the sky than the lights seen the same night in the video over Fraserburgh, about 26 miles (41 kilometers) north of Ellon.
Which begs the question: Were these orange-coloured lights possibly floating lanterns set off into the sky from another part of the world? ” (extract from article).

” Andy Hadlington saw the mysterious blob silently hovering around and filmed it from the window of his office.
The mysterious grey object glided around the residential area of Knowle, Bristol, at 5.30pm on Sunday without making a sound ” (extract from article).

” Strange bunch, UFO-spotters. They look into the sky and if they see something they don’t recognise immediately believe it must be from Mars. Dave has a simple message for them: you are talking out of Uranus ” (extract from article).

To which i respond…. is this before this paper(and others) hype’s another supposed UFO sighting again(and again);without bothering to do their research(also many people who report them,want to know what they are, but many papers jump on the ‘little green man’ bandwaggon hypothesis)….i think alot of the time the only ones talking rubbish are papers like this…go figure!

“ LAST week’s story about UFOs over Newtown prompted one reader to send in a video clip she’d taken of the strange lights zipping around Mid Wales skies.
In Friday’s County Times we revealed how Unidentified Flying Objects spotted over Newtown were possibly Chinese Lanterns. A number of Newtown residents witnessed as many as 20 orange spherical objects in the sky over the town on Saturday night ” (extract from article).

” On Saturday, May 9 at around 10.30pm David Horgan, from Stockton Heath, saw around 15 to 20 separate orange lights flying silently, seemingly following the Manchester Ship Canal.
While the next day, Marie Kelly-Irlam, from Lymm, was driving with her son and his girlfriend when they spotted a huge burning fireball travelling at a fast pace through the sky at around 10.20pm ” (extract from article).

” MORE sightings of a possible UFO in the Berwick area earlier this month have been reported on a specialist website.
It follows a posting made on UK-UFO.co.uk and reported in the Berwick Advertiser last week about a bright orange light being seen in the skies above Tweedmouth on May 9 ” (extract from article).

“ A CLAIMED UFO sighting has been branded a load of hot air by Uxbridge Gazette readers.
Melody Pearce contacted the paper describing red spheres with a glowing light beneath them, which she saw from her home in Heritage Close in Cowley last Saturday ” (extract from article).

” A family from The Heywood, near Winfarthing, who asked to be left anonymous, described 13 orange glowing lights rise from the distance before floating over their house and suddenly going out.
The lights were described as being at a height equivalent to a low flying airplane, but slightly bigger and noiseless and were following each other ” (extract from article).

“ Residents from across the district have been writing to the Courier with their strange UFO sightings following last week’s article about an unidentified object over Radford Semele ” (extract from article).

” A goodbye gesture to a much-loved grandad unwittingly sparked off a massive UFO scare for hundreds of people.
The mysterious ‘Bletchley balls’, huge glowing lights speeding across the sky, were the talk of the town for days ” (extract from article).

” “It was just a white light – like a plane – but about 50 times faster. It was in my vision then out of it in literally one second, covering probably a couple of miles in distance in that time.
“I always keep my eyes to the skies but have never seen anything like that before.
“I half thought it was a shooting star at first but then I realised it was too low. I don’t know what it was” ” (extract from short article).

” Musicians from such diverse groups as Pink Floyd and Boyzone have joined forces in a last-ditch campaign to halt the extradition to the US of north London computer hacker Gary McKinnon.
The family and friends of McKinnon, who has Asperger’s syndrome, are hoping that a campaign also supported by well-known names including Terry Waite, Boris Johnson, Sting, Lord Carlile and Jane Asher, will finally bear fruit ” (extract from article).

“ Engineer David Self, 56, says he saw eleven bright orange globes flying over his home in Thorpe Marriot at about 10pm on Saturday night, heading towards the coast.
He says they moved at around the speed of a plane, and took around 20 minutes to fly out of eyesight ” (extract from article).

“ A STRANGE object was seen in the sky over North Thoresby on Saturday.
Holly Anne Lowley, 11, was playing in her garden with her brother at around 9pm when they spotted the weird sight ” (extract from article).

” A coastguard source speculated that any orange glow could be attributed to the annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower.
Liverpool-born UFO expert John Rimmer said it was a “rule of thumb” that mysterious lights in the sky generally turn out to be floating Chinese lanterns ” (extract from article).

” Eyewitness Jackie Hardaker of Mossley Hill said: “They were like red balls, they looked like fire and when planes went past they just dimmed.
“When I looked out again one went across Rose Lane and dropped something that looked like fire.”

Phil Daley also saw something similar from Allerton Road at the same time ” (extract from article).

” But a number of readers have revealed that instead of visitors from out of space, the globes were actually flying lanterns let off from Wensum Valley Golf Club.
Tom Harwood said the lanterns on Saturday night were to celebrate the wedding of Robert and Becky Palmer ” (extract from article).

” Mum Fiona, who lives in Llandaff, Cardiff, said: “It was about 10.30pm and my daughters called me to look at the object they could see in the sky.
“They were bright orange and some of them were pulsating red ” (extract from article).

” They claimed to have seen glowing orange lights moving slowly across the sky between 10.30pm and 11pm on Sunday evening.
Sightings were reported from Southport to South Liverpool, and at spots including Ainsdale, Garston and Mossley Hill ” (extract from article).

” Reader John Pascos was a guest at the wedding and said 25-30 of the lanterns had been released into the sky by guests.
Experienced UFO researcher Philip Mantle, who has written a number of books on the subject, was quick to spot the confusion.
He e-mailed the Echo to say: “I can tell you that Fiona and Myfanwy George-Veale did not film anything unusual.
“Instead they have filmed Chinese lanterns ” (extract from article).

” Actor Sam Lathem was so spooked by the appearance of a large cube-shaped “ship” with orange lights erratically making its way across the sky he sketched an image of the floating object
The 44-year-old, of Ellington Road, said: “What was really peculiar was it was a cube and had orange lights coming from underneath and it was such a close-up view ” (extract from article).

” He told the ECHO: “On Sunday night I was on Sudley field on Mossley Hill and we could see these lights from half a mile away.
“We saw about 12 or so and wondered what they were.
“One blew low across the field, and so I ran across to catch it before it fell and saw it was one of those Chinese lanterns.”
It’s a theory that is backed by the experts ” (extract from article).

” The Coppice Road resident attended a party at Whitnash Sports and Social Club to celebrate a friend’s 65th birthday on May 2, during which between ten and 15 Chinese lanterns were released into the sky.
She said: “They were spectacular and went away up in the sky. We watched them for ages – they must have travelled a very long distance in the Radford Semele direction ” (extract from article).

” The irritating and unidentifiable sound, which has been reported in locations throughout the world, is driving residents in Mawnan to search for an explanation.
Now the parish council has been asked to launch an investigation to find the source.

Residents claim they are also experiencing a variety of other symptoms including headaches, anxiety, frequent nosebleeds and a loss of balance ” (extract from article).

Thanks too CBPDV, UFO (Brazilian Journal Of Ufology), i have been made aware of the UFO files which came out on May 4th; please see this link (translated by Google, and added below):

” The reason, quite a surprise to all Brazilian Ufology Community: new documents released for Aeronautics. “Looks like we’re starting to get the parts that most interest us, including the operation of Prato,” said Beck.
Folder number 10, for example, were not only documents that had already CBU, but also more new photos and descriptions of events related to what became known as “Suck Suck” in Pará – among dozens of other official narratives and testimonies from civilians, and many images (copies) of newspapers.” (extract from article).

The documents can be downloaded from this link also: (the downloaded link, will say Translation from English into English is not supported (just click on see original page), and choose from the list….. all documents are obviously not in English….. apart from MOD ones which are covered in parent list (at top).

Have a good look around, as there is alot of information (even if you do not understand the language) also for MOD (if you missed it (1926-1957), and other countries are covered. Also photographs too.

The Brazilian Files cover the years 1970 – 1979, but unfortunately i can only translate very small pieces; hope there might be a way around this somehow….

” Fernando Ramalho reports from the task this week: “I am studying the material, it is a lot. Agora terminei o ano de 1972. Now finished the year 1972. Even so, I sent a copy of it via special delivery to other members of the CBU and to make everything on the site of UFO Magazine.

In addition to documentation of the Air, there are actually documents the DOPS and materials were observed in other places, such as statements of generals, engineers of the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) and police, for example, and this only in the files examined so far.

This is certainly the largest and most important of all releases that have occurred since the campaign began ufos: Freedom of information already. All material will be studied, analyzed and compared with data that already have Ufology, both as those obtained previously reached by casting, for finding something on which the government may be holding on these specific topics, or about Operation Prato, is on the activities of DOPS ” (extract from article).

For more information on Sweden releases coming very soon, please see these links :

The RBAF (Royal Belgian Air Force) decided to co-operate/work with SOBEPS (Local UFO Research Group= Society Of Belgian Studies of Celestial Phenomena), with SOBEPS reporting from ground level, whilst RBAF would attempt to track and intercept.

They never intercepted them, as the UFOs were far too quick for the F-16s.

English: Belgian Air Force F-16 at the Waddington International Air Show 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Triangular UFOs- what were they? Explanations for this, were that the USAF, may have been testing its stealth aircraft – F117A fighters and B-2 bombers.

However, F-16s can fly faster than stealth aircraft, so why no interceptions, and why were the UFOs more agile.

REFERENCES:

ARTICLES:

AN Excellent resource is from UFO Evidence see here for detailed reports on this (17 articles/documents).

” Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted Monday that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments.
He delivered his remarks during an appearance at the National Press Club following the conclusion of the fifth annual X-Conference, a meeting of UFO activists and researchers studying the possibility of alien life forms ” (extract from article).

” Mitchell’s belief in the existence of aliens is well documented. In an interview with the Times in 1998, he said he is “90% sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets “ ” (extract from article).